Happy Christmas to you all. Today is a day of mixed feelings as some of you sit around with all your family or friends eating drinking and chatting, and some like myself are away from everyone spending the time alone. As I am here in India and there is no one I know celebrating this [...]
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Indian Diaries day 11 Christmas Rush
As Christmas fast arrives I have been somewhat happy to miss the customary mad rush to buy pleasing presents for everyone. Now I have not been much of a present giver or receiver these years passed but just being in another country where no one is shopping for holiday gifts is calming in itself.
All that [...]
Indian Diaries day 9
Discussing Ayurvedic medicine and the flow of energy in the body, today in class we got talking about sexual habits and the loss of energy in the body from too much sex or from no activity. As ayurveda teaches, the most essential and the finest part of energy or life sap are in the seminal [...]
Is the way you’re living affecting others?
Last month while sitting with my father and mother having breakfast a thought came to mind. My father smoked for 51 years up to the point he just had to have a big heart surgery. When we use to get into discussions about life, health or spirituality before his surgery, he repeated the same opinion for as [...]
Live longer and happier – 10 things you can do
Live longer and Happier. There are many things you can do to live longer but not always healthier or happier. Living longer should not be our primary goal but instead we should try to achieve, sustain and aspire to a better life, where we cultivate better habits and lifestyles which bring us longevity and not [...]
Violence. Your choice.
I am working with a writer on a book at the moment and the question of Ahimsa (non-violence) came up as this is the first commitment on the path of Raja yoga (one of the paths of Yoga and the yogic lifestyle). We live in such a physically violent society and we acknowledge this day [...]
